Sec. Chu Explains Plate Tectonics To Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

I didn't notice any comments on here about the direct causation of increased warmth retention and increased solar flare activity. Gore's graph shows warmth PRECEDING carbon output while it is actually solar flares that precede warming.

This was just one question by Barton to Chu. Barton's YT channel has the same clip. But, gtuess what. Barton doesn't allow comments on the video or his channel. I wonder why that is?

It's funny that Chu and a lot of other scientists have lecture vids on YT that are nearly an hour long. I doubt your attention span would suffice.

Barton represents part of Dallas and in East Texas the major oil reserves were created in the Cretaceous Period (98 myo) when the North American plate was pretty much in the same position it is now.

His comment "it just drifted up there..." I think really only shows ignorance about Alaska specifically and not of general geology or petrology which he may actually understand because it's important here in Texas.

Anyone really think Pelosi or Reid would know anymore?

Barton didn't know that that the oil/gas in Alaska was created from deposits laid down when the Alaska plate was NOT in it's current position.

It's stupid to bash him for not knowing that SPECIFIC fact. I bet 99.99% of the population doesn't know that either.

Barton assumed the oil/gas deposits were created when (the plate of) Alaska was in it's CURRENT position.

Barton was trying to make the point that Alaska must have been warmer in the past and then got cooler.

Wow...I didn't know the Texas Congressman was that ignorant.

The Nobel prize is meaningless. It only means he's an establishment figure and he's part of the team that is destroying the country. I mean, Obama is getting a Nobel Prize for being black. LOL

Peak oil is a fraud, there's plenty of oil in the ground and it will never run out, at least not for a long time. And by that time, we'll have a new technology.

The Jews are behind it all. Get rid of them and you won't be so uptight. Unless you are a Jew, of course.

Never trust a man with the name Chu

Oh yeah, particle physics discovery has nothing to do with Chu an the Nobel. Right!

I love the way Dr Chu almost fell out of his chair. Barton's queston was so sophomoric. He was a buffoon for asking it with no real time remaining. Chu did give him the short and correct answer.

Chu sucks. Let him go back to Chiner.

Umm, Steve was born in Missouri. St. Louis, MO. Maybe he will run for president one day.  He could, you know.

Eh no, he was suggesting that alaska at one point was warmer, and thus that human induced climate change is a lie.

The truth is that the land known as alaska was at one point warmer, but it wasn't where it is now due to plate tectonics, thus making the point moot. Chu wasn't dodging any points at all, he was trying to guide Barton through a very simple process that I learnt of when I was about 12.